Fadi Hana English 1180 /S1624 February 8‚ 2012 What Made Me Today Growing up back home since I was a little kid I loved playing soccer. You might ask me where back home is. I am from Iraq specifically a small city in the north called Mosul. I kept on playing soccer through elementary and middle school. I had dreams of becoming a professional soccer player and play in the European professional soccer league. When I moved to the states and started high school I figured this would be my chance
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Tom’s Lament. Old Tom limped down the street in the warm rain. He was heading for the bar on the corner of Henderson Boulevard where he regularly went for an ice cold brew on hot summer afternoons. Come to think of it‚ he didn’t so much drink his beer‚ as sit in the corner nursing the same glass for hours at a time watching those perfectly round chilled droplets hit the mahogany countertop. A young sporting type‚ who looked remarkably similar to his youngest boy‚ approached him and offered him
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The Most Significant Experience which Made Me Who I am today. Life is an opportunity. It is a cycle of most valuable and treasured memories that even a ninety year old and a crippled person will not be able to erase and forget. It is an endless road that is full of laughter‚ sweat‚ tearful and most of all loneliness. The land was extremely barren for my eyes. The blue angry waves of the sea made me feel so anxious to paddle my daddy’s canoe to collect sea urchins and sea cucumbers‚ that I
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The Unexpected Collapse At Dewan Perdana Felda KUALA LUMPUR: An unexpected collapse was happened during a Health Seminar programme in Dewan Perdana Felda at 9 o’clock this morning. That incident happened when the director of Hospital Kuala Lumpur‚ Dr. Mohd Azman Abdullah‚ was speaking. Just shortly over a moment when he started to speak‚ the ceiling caved in‚ injuring him. When the ceiling had caved in‚ there were many students from schools all around Kuala Lumpur inside the hall.
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The Shoes I Worked For Every child grows up wanting something that they feel they can’t live without. No matter what that something is‚ it motivates the child to do whatever they have to do to get it. As a child‚ I have always been the type to take care of and keep every pair of shoes I get. The love I had for shoes was unexplainable and I often tended to go nuts if someone had worn them without asking. Still to this day I’m crazy about them and I have accepted the fact that I am a shoe fanatic
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Deon’s Black Eye Travis was walking in the school building looking for his girl‚ Alicia. He went past the Math class‚ he saw Mr. Freeman and the principal making out he got disgusted and walked faster. While passing by the English class he decided to take a peek and see if she was in there. When he opened the door he saw nothing out of the ordinary but he started hearing people laughing. So he went in the class and started looking around. He saw the desk he used to sit on in his junior year. He
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Bryce Sulin 1/30/11 Family Matters My favorite vacation was two summers back just before I entered high school. My family and I traveled to South Padre Island‚ Texas; located in the Gulf of Mexico; connected to Texas by only a long narrow bridge. I had high hopes for the vacation‚ but they took a plummet during the course of my vacation. Although much of my vacation was an utter disaster‚ I learned that with family you can make the best out of anything. My trip started out alright flying
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RETURNING TO SCHOOL Page 1 Returning To School Shannon L. Stevens ENG121: English Composition I Instructor: Clinton Edwards 1/21/2013 RETURNING TO SCHOOL Page 2 Becoming a mother at a young age was very stressful at times. I wanted to continue my education but it was hard being a single mother
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A Trip Into Unfamiliar Territory They say ‘’who lives sees‚ but who travels sees more.’’ When my family decided to take a trip to the Dominican Republic‚ I realized this is true. My father who is Dominican and my mother is Haitian both came to America. They faced many hardships as they adapted to lifestyle changes. My parents always wanted my sister and I to see how it is growing outside of US. When spring break rolled around‚ it was the perfect opportunity. We had a week to ourselves
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As many as 60‚000 small farmers in the region of Andhra Pradesh‚ southern India‚ have taken to farming cotton instead of food crops. Some 20 of them have recently committed suicide by eating lethal doses of pesticide. Most of the farmers are extremely poor. Attracted by cheap loans from pesticides traders and the prospect of a quick buck‚ they borrowed heavily to raise cotton on small plots of land. ________ to the Ministry of Agriculture‚ the crop losses and destruction in Andhra Pradesh arose
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